Summary
of MG2 Episode 7:
Dao Ming Si & Ye Sha are walking on their way to the library.
Ye Sha: “Why do we have to go to the library?”
Dao Ming Si: “According to this Zhong Ze’s words, if my family’s business is this big in Taiwan, then I’m thinking if we go to the library and look at all the newspapers and magazines, we should be able to find some information about my family. This way… Maybe it would help me remember some things. I know doing this is very stupid but do you know that not letting other people know who I am, and not letting my family know that I’m looking for them, is a very hard thing?”
Ye Sha: “Right.”
Dao Ming Si: “I’m saying the truth. Or do you want me to just grab someone from the streets and ask them, do you know where is Dao Ming family’s home?”
Ye Sha (shrugging her shoulders): “Why not?”
Dao Ming Si: “The question is that…”
Just then a girl walks by Dao Ming Si & Ye Sha. Dao Ming Si stops her.
Dao Ming Si: “Hey Miss. I want to ask you. Do you know where is the Dao Ming family’s home?”
Girl: “Dao Ming family?”
Dao Ming Si: “Yes. Dao Ming family’s home.”
Girl: “Of course I know.”
Dao Ming Si looks at Ye Sha in surprise.
Girl: “Who doesn’t know about Dao Ming family’s home. (Dao Ming Si stares at her.) What?”
Dao Ming Si: “Where is the Dao Ming family’s home then?”
Girl: “Their family’s business is based here in Taiwan. There’s so many… so very impressive. It’s everywhere.”
Dao Ming Si / Ye Sha: “Really?”
Girl: “Yes.”
Dao Ming Si (getting loud): “Then, then… then where is it? You still haven’t told me!”
Girl (pointing to a tall building across the street): “Look, this tall building that looks similar to an emperor’s palace is developed by their family. (looking at Dao Ming Si) You are so strange.”
The girl walks away, leaving Dao Ming Si and Ye Sha looking at each other.
Dao Ming Si: “Is this for real? What a coincidence.”
Ye Sha: “Well, then… Let’s go over and take a look.”
Dao Ming Si (still not believing): “It’s not possible.”
Dao Ming Si & Ye Sha walks into the lobby of the building, which is a hotel, and looks around. As Dao Ming Si walks around the corner, he hears his mom’s voice.
Dao Ming Feng (walking and talking at the same time): “The pillows in the room are not soft enough.”
Assistant (following meekly behind): “Yes.”
Dao Ming Feng: “The fruit basket is not fresh enough.”
Assistant: “Yes.”
Dao Ming Feng: “The room service is too slow.”
Assistant: “Yes.”
Dao Ming Feng: “The menu should also be changed.”
Assistant: “Yes.”
Dao Ming Feng (stopped walking): “The Dao Ming family don’t employ idiots. Those that need to be dismissed will be dismissed.”
Assistant: “Yes.”
Dao Ming Feng: “Of course, that also means you too.”
Assistant: “Yes.”
Dao Ming Feng: “So the words I just said, I will never say again. Did you hear clearly?”
Assistant: “Very clearly.”
Dao Ming Feng (staring straight ahead at the spot that Dao Ming Si was standing before): “Also, this is not a place for you to collect dusk. Have it cleaned up immediately.”
Assistant: “Yes.”
Dao Ming Si & Ye Sha are sitting in a park. Ye Sha is sitting there with her drawing pad, drawing. Dao Ming Si is sitting there thinking.
Dao Ming Si (finally breaking the silence): “I don’t know what I’m afraid of. Even if my mom is mean, she couldn’t be meaner than the land lady, Grandma. But I don’t understand why my legs would…”
Ye Sha (looking up from her drawing): “It should not be unfamiliar/strange. If it was unfamiliar in the first place, then it can only be unfamiliar. But because it’s familiar, that’s why the feeling is unfamiliar. That’s how it helps people clear away what they are frightened of. (pause) Let me help you.”
Dao Ming Si (confused): “Huh?”
Ye Sha: “Even though now, your mom is our only clue but your family is so big, so it shouldn’t just be only your mom. I don’t believe that within your home, there’s not someone who is nice to look at.”
Scene shifts to show Dao Ming Si’s mom leaving a building and getting into a car. Ye Sha gets into a taxi and follows her.
Ye Sha narrating as following few scenes all show what she’s talking about: “Your mom is really impressive. She’s very busy everyday. Doesn’t matter if she’s in her own office or in other people’s office, she seems to be constantly talking business with people, even during meals. Even with a whole table full of food, she won’t eat. When she’s not talking business with people or having meals, her mouth would still not slow down because she would be busy scolding at people.”
Dao Ming Si: “Hey, time schedule. The important thing here is my mom’s time schedule through out the day ok?”
Ye Sha: “Well, with regards to the time schedule, there’s a big problem. Because even though everyday she has a couple of places she has to go, for example, the hotel, the office, but the times that she stays there varies. Sometimes, she would go home all of a sudden to change clothes, then come back out.”
Dao Ming Si: “What the heck?!?!?”
Ye Sha: “Don’t be impatient. After following her for so many days, I’ve finally found the one slot of time for us to make our move. This is the one habit of your mom’s that doesn’t change. Everyday, after she leaves the home, her first stop is always to the hotel. After 12 minutes, which is 7:57 a.m., your mom would definitely arrive at the hotel. So from the time when your mom finds out and when she rushes home, we have a total of 12 minutes.”
So one day, after Dao Ming Si’s mom leaves the house in a car, Dao Ming Si & Ye Sha rushes up to the gates to go inside. The guard that was closing the gate stops them.
Guard: “Mr. (then he realizes that the guy is Dao Ming Si) Oh, master.” (he bows and stands aside)
Dao Ming Si (pushing the guard aside and running inside with Ye Sha): “Get away!”
Guard (after Dao Ming Si runs away, speaks into a microphone): “Butler Lau, Butler Lau, the master has returned, the master has returned.”
Dao Ming Si & Ye Sha runs through a long driveway full of trees, the same place where San Cai was standing in the rain and waiting for Dao Ming Si in MG1, looking very confused.
Dao Ming Si: “So weird, what…”
After a while, they finally found the front entrance of the mansion. As they were running through the main door, the Butler runs out to greet him.
Butler (running toward them): “Master, it’s really you. You’ve finally come home.”
Dao Ming Si (speaking to Butler): “Yeah. (then whispers to Ye Sha) Plan begins…”
Dao Ming Si pushes Ye Sha away and runs in the other direction. Both runs up the stairs. The Butler runs after them, but wasn’t sure which one to follow so he stayed at the foot of the stairs. Then he seems to remember something and runs toward the foyer for the phone.
Dao Ming Si’s mom is walking up the stairs in the hotel when her cell phone rings.
Dao Ming Feng (answering the phone): “What’s wrong?”
Butler: “Hello Madam. I’m Butler Lau. Yes. Reporting to you, the master is home and he has brought a girl home too. No, not San Cai. Looks like a foreigner.”
Dao Ming Feng: “Listen carefully. No matter what you do, make sure you find master and stop him.”
Butler: “Yes, yes. I’m going right now. Yes.”
Butler hangs up the phone and runs to the front entrance yelling.
Butler (yelling): “Everybody come at once. Master has come back but now he’s missing. Go find master!”
Dao Ming Feng (making a call): “Tell the driver to bring the car to the front entrance. Quickly.”
Dao Ming Si & Ye Sha is standing in a room totally lost. Ye Sha has a stop watch in one hand, watching the time. They’re running all around trying to open the doors to the rooms. As they were running around, the guards finally caught up with them and started to run after them.
Dao Ming Si (to Ye Sha): “Why didn’t you tell me there was so many people?”
Ye Sha: “How was I to know?”
They continue running finally finding an open door which leads to a hallway. As Dao Ming Si was pushing Ye Sha through the door, the Butler showed up grabbing Dao Ming Si from behind.
Butler (wrapping his arms around Dao Ming Si): “Master, I’ve finally found you.”
Dao Ming Si pushes him back outside, up against the wall, and wrapped his hand around the Butler’s throat.
Dao Ming Si: “I’m warning you. Stop following me. (yelling) Do you hear me?”
Butler in pain, nods his head frantically. Dao Ming Si lets him go and runs into the hallway after Ye Sha, closing the door. Dao Ming Si’s mom walks in through the main entrance with 4 body guards behind her and hears the Butler yelling, “Master, master, don’t run! Come back Master!”
Dao Ming Feng: “What are you standing there for?! Hurry up and go catch him.”
Four body guards: “Yes!”
Dao Ming Si & Ye Sha continue running and searching. Finally he finds his room. He walks in and looks around. Ye Sha comes in after him.
Ye Sha: “Ah Sing. What’s wrong Ah Sing? Is it this one?”
Dao Ming Si walks over to the bed and on the little table next to the bed, he sees a picture of him, Lei, Xi Men & Mei Zuo. He grabs the picture and stares at it. At this moment, Yu Sao comes in and sees Dao Ming Si.
Yu Sao (happy): “Master, master you’ve come home!”
Dao Ming Si gets scared and backs away from her.
Yu Sao (confused): “Master? What’s wrong with you? You… you don’t recognize me? You don’t even recognize me? I’m Yu Sao.”
Ye Sha (looking at the stop watch): “8 minutes left.”
Yu Sao: “Master. Don’t be scared. Ever since you were a little kid, Yu Sao have watched over you, why would I harm you?”
Just then the Butler runs in with some guards. The guards run up to Dao Ming Si and restrains him.
Dao Ming Si (struggling): “What are you doing?”
Butler: “Madam said we have to catch you. Don’t make this difficult for us.”
Dao Ming Si starts struggling and fighting with the butler and the body guards. Ye Sha goes up to help him. Dao Ming Si & Ye Sha got lose but as they try to run out the room, the Butler grabs Dao Ming Si from behind again.
Butler: “Master, please don’t do…”
Dao Ming Si throws him off and the Butler falls onto the sofa, then onto the ground. Dao Ming Si grabs Ye Sha and runs out of the room with the picture frame in his hand. Yu Sao follows them out.
Outside the room:
Yu Sao (calling out to Dao Ming Si): “Master.”
Dao Ming Si & Ye Sha stops and turns around.
Yu Sao: “Follow me. Master.”
Dao Ming Si hesitates for a couple of seconds, then decides to follow Yu Sao.
Dao Ming Si (running after Yu Sao while holding onto Ye Sha’s hand): “Yu Sao be careful.”
Butler runs out of the room and sees Dao Ming Si’s mom.
Butler (out of breath): “Madam. The master… he… is gone again.”
Dao Ming Feng (angry): “Useless idiots! Continue looking! Search each and every corner of this house! No matter what, find him!”
Butler (standing up very straight): “Yes Madam! (turning to one of the guards) You go look over there. (turning to the other two guards) The two of you, go that way. (pointing to two more guards) You two follow me.”
Dao Ming Si, Ye Sha & Yu Sao walked all the way to the back entrance of the house, the same entrance that F3 came through when they came to save Dao Ming Si in MG1.
Yu Sao: “The front entrance must be filled with lots of people now, if the two of you don’t want to get caught, then you have to go this way. Hurry and leave. Master. Hurry! Go!”
Yu Sao watches them leave and goes back out to the front entrance. She meets up with Dao Ming Si’s mom and two guards.
Yu Sao: “Madam.”
Dao Ming Feng: “Where is he?”
Yu Sao: “Who? Oh, you are talking about Master. I heard that Master came back. I thought I saw him before and followed him here but… I lost him.”
Dao Ming Feng: “All are idiots! Can’t even catch two people. Continue searching for me! Have to find the two of them!”
Two body guards: “Yes!”
Ye Sha & Dao Ming Si are running through the garden area.
Ye Sha (gasping for breath): “So close!”
Dao Ming Si (also gasping for breath): “I know that my family is very rich, but I didn’t think the house was THAT big. But the feeling is so cold.”
Ye Sha: “Cold?”
Dao Ming Si: “Yes, cold. Except for that old lady.”
Ye Sha: “You mean Yu Sao?”
Dao Ming Si: “Yu Sao… Yu Sao… Yu Sao… Strange, she looks like she’s very nice to me but why can’t I remember? Who is she?”
Ye Sha: “Stop thinking about it already. (She takes the picture frame from Dao Ming Si’s hands) We now have a picture. (staring at the photo) Aye, they look like very good friends of yours. At least now we have a new clue. Your school and your friends.”
Dao Ming Si grabs Ye Sha by the hands again and ran out of the mansion grounds.
Yu Sao and F3 are meeting somewhere near a lake.
Xi Men: “Ah Si came back? Was he by himself?”
Yu Sao: “Um, no… There was also a girl. Don’t know who she is.”
Mei Zuo: “Oh no, is it another Zhong Ze?”
Yu Sao: “But from the looks of her, she doesn’t look like a bad person. She seems to be helping our master. And very nice to him too.”
Xi Men: “How nice?”
Yu Sao: “Huh? How nice? Well… Master Xi Men… This I don’t know.”
Lei: “Doesn’t matter who she is. If she’s nice to Ah Si, then that’s good.”
Xi Men: “Yu Sao, so they invaded the home, looked around, then left?”
Yu Sao: “He was afraid that Madam would catch him. If he gets caught this time, he’s sure to be locked up again.”
Mei Zuo (smiling): “Was it the same as fighting the 18 monks of the monastery?”
Lei (smiling): “Yes. Ah Si is always making people nervous and surprised. This move is really like Ah Si’s personality.”
Yu Sao: “Oh that’s right. Three masters, I’ve been out for a long time. I have to hurry back now. If there’s any more news on Master, I will tell you all immediately, ok?”
Xi Men: “Yu Sao, thank you.”
Yu Sao leaves and Mei Zuo takes his cell phone out to make a call.
Xi Men: “What are you doing?”
Mei Zuo: “I’m telling San Cai.”
San Cai, dressed as she was in the club/bar, is advertising the fruit wines on the streets.
San Cai: “How is it Mr.? Is it good? Thank you. Welcome to try fruit wine. Miss, do you want to try some fruit wine? Welcome to try fruit wine. It’s very good. Miss, do you want to try some?”
San Cai’s cell phone starts ringing, Mei Zuo’s calling her, but she ignores it.
Mei Zuo: “No answer.”
Xi Men: “Strange. These past two days I’ve been looking for San Cai, but her phone is either shut or no one answers. (looks around at Lei and Mei Zuo) You two also? What is San Cai busy at?”
Lei: “She should not be busy at anything. Maybe she’s hiding.”
Mei Zuo: “Doesn’t matter if she’s busy or hiding, just as long as she doesn’t have amnesia, it’s ok. We could search all of Taipei for her.”
Xi Men (making a call on his cell phone to the pastry shop that San Cai works at): “Lao Ban Niang. I’m Xi Men. I want to ask if San Cai’s there? (pause) Huh? Then, do you know where else is she working at?”
Yu Sao gets back to the mansion and sees Dao Ming Si’s mom, sitting on a sofa, waiting for her.
Dao Ming Feng: “You’re back, Yu Sao?”
Yu Sao: “Madam, how are you?”
Dao Ming Feng: “Did you see Ah Si? I said, there’s so many people in this house, Ah Si and this girl couldn’t have grown wings, so how can they have disappeared like that? Yu Sao, did you secretly help them out?”
Yu Sao: “No, Madam. I just went to see Master Xi Men and Master Mei Zuo. I… I didn’t see our Master. I also don’t know who he is with. I don’t even know where he is now.”
Dao Ming Feng: “Yu Sao, you are getting old, you shouldn’t be using your head so much.”
Yu Sao: “Madam. You want to bring up my retirement again?”
Dao Ming Feng: “I was soft hearted before when you said you heard that Ah Si is sick and you worry so much that you couldn’t sleep. After continuously begging me, I’ve finally agreed to let you come back. But now you are not looking after this house, you can’t even figure out what’s good for Ah Si or bad for Ah Si. If you still don’t want to retire to go home and rest, then you are not only torturing yourself but you are also torturing me.”
Yu Sao: “Madam. I’m very clear about this home’s business, however, even if I want to look after it, I can’t. But, our master, why does coming home to his own house, he has to sneak in? And then run away so quickly? Master is brought up by my own hands. So, no matter what, even if I’m so old that I can’t even crawl, I would protect Master until the end!”
Dao Ming Feng: “Did you forget? Ah Si, doesn’t remember you at all. So whether you are here in this home or not, it will not have any effects on Ah Si. These past twenty years or more, you have done a lot for the Dao Ming family. So, you must not, at this age, do something to ruin all the things you’ve done and to ruin your status in this family. I’ve already told Butler Lau to have all your stuff packed up. Just tell him where you want to go and he will send the car for you.”
Dao Ming Si’s mom walks away after this and Yu Sao sits down on the sofa with tears in her eyes.
Night time, San Cai is still advertising drinks on the street. As she’s advertising, she turns around and didn’t notice that Xi Men & Lei standing was in front of her.
San Cai (not knowing it was Xi Men): “Mr. Would you like to try some fruit wine?”
Xi Men and Lei both pick up a cup.
Xi Men (drinking it): “Tastes weird.”
Lei (drinking also): “But it’s not hard to drink at all.”
San Cai (smiling): “How did you guys know I was here?”
Mei Zuo walks up from behind.
Mei Zuo: “We came by to find you to settle some things with you.”
Mei Zuo steps back and looks at San Cai’s clothes from head to toe.
Mei Zuo (bursts out laughing): “Why are you dressed so ugly?”
San Cai (holding the tray of drinks toward Mei Zuo): “Mr. Do you want to try some fruit wine?”
Xi Men puts his empty cup back on the tray.
San Cai (looking at Xi Men): “Thank you.”
Xi Men: “Aye, she said thank you to us, how can we yell at her?”
San Cai (pushing the tray of drinks toward Mei Zuo again): “Do you want to try it? It’s very good.”
Mei Zuo finally takes a cup and drinks.
San Cai: “Thank you.”
Mei Zuo looks at her and smiles.
Next scene, Mei Zuo, (holding a bottle of fruit wine that San Cai was selling and playing around): “Miss, you want to try some fruit wine?”
San Cai (sitting down and eating food): “No, thank you.”
Xi Men: “Hey San Cai. Why do you make yourself work so hard? What’s the purpose?”
San Cai (finishes eating and stands up): “Cause I want to earn more money. Besides saving for tuition money, there’s… let me tell you guys the truth. (pointing to an electronic billboard across the street) You guys should have seen these electronic billboards. I want to put up an ad to look for Dao Ming Si. Of course, I won’t reveal his identity. But to use this kind of advertisement is very expensive so I had to work an extra job.”
Mei Zuo: “Why didn’t you tell us this?”
San Cai: “Because you guys said that a big commotion is very stupid. And the more I think about it, the more stupid I think it is also. Good thing I didn’t tell you guys that day, if not, you guys would have said I was a fool.”
Xi Men: “Would we?”
Lei: “I never saw a bull that’s a fool.”
San Cai: “Who are you calling a bull? I still haven’t yelled at you for leaving that SMS on my phone. How can a bull do a handstand? Why don’t you do it and let me see.”
Lei: “I’m not going to listen to you.”
Mei Zuo and Xi Men look at each other then back at the billboard, a thought coming to mind.
Dao Ming Si is walking around at night and stops to sit on the side of the street, looking at a newspaper, trying to find a job. San Cai is also walking to somewhere that F3 told her to go.
San Cai (getting to the meeting place): “Weird. Told me to come and he’s still not here. What is Mei Zuo doing?”
San Cai waits around and then suddenly looks up at the electronic billboard. A message comes across the top.
Message: “Ah Si, I will wait for you forever. 0917-595600”
San Cai stands there staring at the billboard, feeling tears of happiness coming to her eyes.
San Cai (very touched): “Lei, Xi Men, Mei Zuo. Thank you guys. Thank you.”
At another place, another billboard is also displaying the same message. Dao Ming Si is standing there looking at it. Meanwhile, back to San Cai, she’s standing there waiting when her cell phone rings.
San Cai: “Hello?”
Guy: “Where are you?”
San Cai: “Who are you?”
Guy: “I’m Ah Si.”
San Cai: “You’re not.”
Guy: “Oh, I really miss you.”
San Cai: “Stop playing. I’m waiting for a call.”
She hangs up and the phone rings again.
San Cai: “Hello?”
Guy: “Hey, I’m really also called Ah Si. If you don’t believe me, I’ll show you my id.”
San Cai (getting annoyed): “Mr. Can you please stop playing?”
Guy: “Oh come on. What’s wrong with making a new friend?”
San Cai: “I beg you ok? I’m really waiting for a very important call. I work two jobs every day just to advertise this notice. He is missing. Right now he can be in a very dangerous situation, but all I can do is wait. Wait for his voice. His face, when he speaks, is becoming more and more unclear. I really regret not taking more pictures with him, not using a V8 camcorder to record it down. Do you understand what is regret? Have you ever experienced it? If you’ve ever been regretful before, I beg you to please hang up ok?”
San Cai hangs up the phone and it rings again.
San Cai: “Hello?”
Guy (again): “Sorry, it’s me again. I forgot to say. I hope you find Ah Si someday. Good luck.”
San Cai (thinking): “All the billboards in the city is lit up. It’s like my hope/wish. Don’t know why, but I have this really strong feeling that Dao Ming Si saw the advertisement. He is now standing at some place looking at my hope/wish.”
San Cai’s phone rings again.
San Cai: “Hello? (pauses, then yells out) YOU ARE NOT!”
She hangs up looking very upset. Dao Ming Si is walking toward a pay phone. He takes out money and stares at the phone.
San Cai is walking home and her phone rings again.
San Cai: “Hello?”
After listening for a few seconds and finding out it was another prank call, she hangs up. San Cai finds F3 waiting for her in front of her home.
Mei Zuo: “San Cai, how come your phone is not working?”
Xi Men: “Did you see it?”
San Cai (nodding her head): “Thank you.”
San Cai’s phone rings again.
San Cai: “Hello?”
Guy: “Do you want to know where Ah Si is? Come out and have some coffee.”
San Cai: “Stupid.”
She hangs up the phone looking annoyed.
Mei Zuo (seeing her expression): “What’s wrong?”
San Cai: “Nothing. Just that… My phone has been ringing nonstop and it’s all strange prank calls.”
Xi Men: “Ah Si never called?”
San Cai: “Everybody that calls says they are Ah Si.”
San Cai’s phone rings again. Mei Zuo gets upset and takes the phone from San Cai.
Guy: “Miss, do you want to have some coffee?”
Mei Zuo: “Sure, where do we go?”
In front of the pay phone, Dao Ming Si picks up the phone and gets ready to dial the number.
Mei Zuo (talking on the phone): “Say something.”
Xi Men: “Mei Zuo.”
Mei Zuo: “Why are you not saying anything?”
San Cai grabs the phone back from Mei Zuo.
San Cai (to Mei Zuo): “What are you doing?”
Mei Zuo: “Yelling at him.”
San Cai: “Forget it.”
Mei Zuo grabs the phone again and turns it off. San Cai sees him and grabs it back.
San Cai: “Hey! Why did you turn it off?”
Mei Zuo: “Do you want to continue getting those calls?”
San Cai: “What if Dao Ming Si calls?”
Dao Ming Si is calling San Cai’s number and gets a message that the call is not connecting because Mei Zuo turned the phone off. He hangs up and dials again. At that moment, San Cai turns the phone back on and it rings. This time it really is Dao Ming Si calling.
San Cai: “Hello? (Dao Ming Si doesn’t say anything.) Hello? Hello? Say something.”
Mei Zuo gets angry and takes the phone from San Cai again.
Mei Zuo (thinking it was another prank call): “You are Ah Si right? I tell you, you stupid, useless bastard, if you call again, I’m going to smack you until your mouth is slanted.”
Dao Ming Si hears Mei Zuo’s words and quickly hangs up the phone. Mei Zuo also hangs up.
Mei Zuo: “Don’t know why people are so bored.”
San Cai (talking very quiet but with a hard tone): “Give it back.”
Xi Men: “San Cai maybe we used the wrong way.”
San Cai (to Mei Zuo): “GIVE IT BACK.”
Mei Zuo: “Can you wake up please?”
At this moment, Lei starts walking away in the background.
San Cai (looking at Mei Zuo): “I want to ok? This is my only hope/wish now.”
F3 is by the waterside drinking beer.
Mei Zuo: “Can’t find the person but found a lot of trouble. Should have use my phone number. See how I would treat those bastards.”
Xi Men: “It’s because we wanted San Cai to be the first one to answer Dao Ming Si’s call.”
Lei: “Let’s stop the advertisements. The more hope we have in it, the bigger the disappointment.”
Xi Men: “I’m afraid San Cai would break down again.”
Lei: “No matter how many times she breaks down, she can still handle the truth.”
Xi Men (with a smile): “I wonder if you are an alien from out of space sometimes.”
Lei: “I am.”
Xi Men: “Come on. From now on, there will be less of a chance that we can get together to drink beer. Cheers.”
Mei Zuo: “Why is there less of a chance that we can get together?”
Xi Men: “I actually wanted to wait until we find Ah Si, then have you guys celebrate with me.”
Mei Zuo: “Celebrate what?”
Xi Men: “I’m starting work tomorrow. Graduation vacation is over. Should stop playing.”
Lei: “That’s right. Graduation vacation is over.”
Mei Zuo: “Cheers.”
Dao Ming Si is back at the apartment, sitting out in the balcony, drinking coconut juice. Ye Sha walks up to him.
Ye Sha: “Aye, Did you know that you are not one, two, three, si (four) that si, you are this si.” (she writes the Chinese character for his name on a piece of paper for Dao Ming Si to see.)
She sits down next to Dao Ming Si on the bench.
Ye Sha: “And at Ying De, you guys are known as F4. Do you know what F4 means? It means flower guys, the meaning of Flower Four. You guys are so famous in school, everybody knows about you guys. I just went to ask for a little information and found out. Look, I even have their phone number and address.”
Dao Ming Si (doesn’t seem to care): “I already called. I saw their advertisement.”
Ye Sha: “What advertisement?”
Dao Ming Si: “It’s all over the electronic billboards on the streets. I call them and they yelled at me. (getting angry) Who are they? How can they just yell at people?”
Ye Sha: “They’re looking for you and yelling at you? Maybe they didn’t know you are you.”
Dao Ming Si: “Even if I’m not me, they shouldn’t yell at people. Maybe I shouldn’t find out who they are.”
At this moment, Grandma walked in and heard Dao Ming Si talking.
Dao Ming Si: “Or maybe I shouldn’t find out who I am.”
Grandma is in the background looking at her plants.
Ye Sha: “Ah Si.”
Dao Ming Si: “Why is it that all the people around me doesn’t seem to be good people? What kind of person was I in the past? (He gets mad and throws the coconut on the ground.) Who am I?”
Grandma: “What’s going on? What are you doing? Breaking the house?”
Ye Sha (gets up and goes over to her): “Grandma.”
Grandma (pointing to her plants): “Look. I knew it, don’t help me to water the plants. Do you want to kill my plants?”
Ye Sha: “I’ll help you.”
Grandma: “Now.”
Ye Sha: “Ok.”
Grandma: “This minute.”
Ye Sha (walks over to get a water can): “This minute.”
Grandma walks over to Dao Ming Si.
Grandma: “If you find out you are a bad person, then you should change. The past is the past. The present is the most important. The most important thing is… to remember to pay your rent.”
Grandma walks away, while Ye Sha looks at her smiling.
Grandma: “Hurry up and water the plants.”
Ye Sha: “Yes. Yes.”
Grandma: “You’re going to dry up all my plants.”
Ye Sha: “Oh course not. I’m watering now.”
Grandma leaves and Ye Sha continues watering the plants then runs over to Dao Ming Si and splashes him with water. Dao Ming Si jumps up in surprise.
Dao Ming Si: “What are you doing?”
Ye Sha: “I’m trying to cool down your fire.”
Dao Ming Si runs after Ye Sha. She splashes him with more water. He catches up with her and picks her up.
Dao Ming Si: “I’ll throw you down.”
They continue splashing water at each other until the water can ran out.
Ye Sha (smiling): “You’re smiling. You’re happy again.”
Dao Ming Si smiles at her and she smiles back.
Next morning, Ye Sha goes to Mei Zuo’s home and wait for him. When he drives by in the car, she stops him. Mei Zuo gets out of the car.
Ye Sha: “Senior.”
Mei Zuo: “Who are you?”
Ye Sha: “I’m doing a life style report on the graduated seniors. Don’t know if senior have some time available?”
Mei Zuo: “Life report? There’s no need for it.”
Ye Sha: “Please senior. This would reflect on my next semester’s classes. Please senior.”
Mei Zuo (finally giving in): “Ok, get in.”
Ye Sha & Mei Zuo get in the car and drive to a café.
Mei Zuo: “How come I don’t remember seeing you in Ying De before?”
Ye Sha: “There’s so many girl students in Ying De. How can you remember?”
Mei Zuo (flirting): “I remember all the pretty ones.”
Ye Sha (smiling): “Then I’m not pretty enough.”
Mei Zuo (laughing): “Pretty? Not only are you pretty, but you’re pretty quick with your responses too.”
Ye Sha: “I’m very happy to get a compliment from senior. Well, senior, have you started working? All the other students really want to know about how F4 is doing after graduating. You guys should have started working at your own companies now, right?”
Mei Zuo (leaning back on the sofa): “With regards to this, Xi Men is the first one, but it should be soon for me and Lei.”
Ye Sha: “Well, what about Dao Ming Si?”
Mei Zuo (a little hesitant): “He’s still not back from his graduation vacation yet.”
Ye Sha: “Senior, I’m going to ask you a question, please don’t be mad.”
Mei Zuo: “Ask.”
Ye Sha: “Why is there a rumor that says that something has happened to Dao Ming Si senior?”
Mei Zuo: “Really? Where’d you hear it from?”
Ye Sha: “Um, the advertisements in the newspapers and also the electronic billboards on the streets.”
Mei Zuo doesn’t answer.
Ye Sha: “You must be really worried. Your relationships are so close.”
Mei Zuo: “Isn’t this a “life style” report? Why did it become a “gossip style” report?”
